My Multicultural Experience Analysis

In my personal experience, Mexican music has revolved around my life for as long as I can remember. Growing up in a bordertown has its Hispanic heritage. Whether I was at home, school, or even in public places, I would hear Spanish related music playing in the background. I believe Spanish music holds many values when it comes to different occasions. The music can manipulate the minds of its listeners using love, passion, and outstanding rhythms. After reading an article online, I can explain how three different genres of traditional Mexican music influence people’s culture.

More than half of the population live in just three states; California, Florida and Texas which makes the people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic or racial minority. As such, we see their influence in the culture of our businesses, in politics, and in film, food, music and art. Traditional Hispanic music has strong roots in the United States and is characterized by its rhythm, along with a mixture of instrumental and vocal leads. The arrival of Columbus brought a mix of languages and cultures that helped to define Hispanic music. Its history can be traced back to the slaves from that came from Africa, the Europeans, the Spanish and the Portuguese who all cohabitated in United States all those years ago.

Every culture has their own unique and distinguishing characteristics. One’s cultural identity defines who they are as an individual, group, and community. Their cultural identity may be reflected in numerous ways such as: language, communication styles, religion, beliefs, values, clothing, or other types of aesthetic markers. Cultural identity is formed by many of these traits but is not limited to these specifically. This essay will provide detailed information on Mexican Americans, and their ancestry and heritage. I will also explain about this cultures central beliefs and values, while incorporating information on Mexican Americans, cultural patterns, cultural identity, and their cultures communication characteristics and styles.

The essay “How To Tame A Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua shows how Mexican American people feel about language. For Gloria Anzaldua, language is the key to learn a new culture in a different country Anzaldua attends classes and her teachers expects for Anzaldua speaks clearly English. Still Anzaldua has grown with her Spanish Chicano culture. In page 173 declares:“ The whole time I was growing up, there was norteño music.. I grew up listening to conjuntos..” Anzaldua feels that the impact of Chicano’s art works much movies, music and books has allow her to connect with this culture that it is forbidden by their teachers.

Mayans, Aztecs, and Spanish-Mexicans; these are the stepping stones to the Mexican people of today’s world. Each had their own way of doing things and built upon each other in every aspects of life. The food customs and what is consumed has not changed in as much what is now considered a delicacy and what is considered normal in their culture. These customs compared to the Western culture seem naive, native, and uneducated. Where did these customs come from? What traditions are kept? What needs to these met? These questions will be answered in the following paragraphs.

| Native Americans (American Indians)As the name suggests, these were the first people (natives) who lived in North America, Alaska and Hawaii. After Europeans settled in the U.S., native

As part of the Grupo Folklorico “Sol Azteca,” I have acquired knowledge in regards to the Hispanic Heritage. This has been due to the fact

For my multicultural experience, I went to an Easter Sunday non-denominational Christian sermon at one of the most widely known churches in my Oklahoma City, Crossings Community Church. The service consisted of many elements, from live orchestral and choral music to the incorporation of multimedia video streaming. The service lasted an hour at most but was jam packed with information. Although the service took place on Easter Sunday, the sermon topic was “love,” not a stereotypical presentation about how Jesus rose again from the dead, and all the other Easter related theme’s that might be expected, which was actually rather refreshing. Overall, the whole service was much more interesting than I thought it would be.

In this essay, I will discuss how my rich multicultural background shaped my values, goals in life and my leadership philosophy and how they changed as I changed my cultural environment. Also, I will analyse the advantages and disadvantages of the different styles that I adopted during different stages of my life. Through this essay, my goal will be to define and find the aspects that make an ideal leader based on the goals I want to achieve in life. My goal through this essay will be to find a better alternative to my autocratic leadership and systematic management style that I started

Today, people-who do not study music- tend to group different musical genres under the same category. Although there are many genres that share musical characteristics, it does not specifically mean that they fall under the same musical category. One of the controversial questions ethnomusicologist that study Latin America-or anyone else who is interested in the subject-face is can huichol music groups be considered “traditional mariachi”

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, popular music and culture became significant influences on the lives of many individuals within the city of Los Angeles. East Los Angeles (“East L.A.” or “the Eastside”), in particular, was a center of flourishing musical, cultural, and social scenes with strong connections to the changing Chicano/a identity. Under this environment in which the Chicano movement (moviemiento) continued to prevail, a large number of socially aware and politically active, Latin-fusion “Chicano” bands were developed. One of such was the Ozomatli band, who strived to express their activist viewpoints through popular music. The spatial context of the band’s emergence, their links to past musical movements, and their implementation of a wide array of musical styles and genres all define their impact on Chicano identity in Los Angeles. Through their music, the Ozomatli band has showed much about the importance of the changing Chicano culture and served as the framework for cultural and social dynamics of present-day Los Angeles.

There are a lot of times I have been place in multicultural cultural settings. My reaction to multicultural setting is no different than a native setting. I treat foreigners with the same respect I treat with English speaking people. You will be surpise how many foreigners think like Americans

Ever wondered why humans travel form one place to another place for their existence? This is because birth happens in one place but real life happens in another place. Few years back when I reached Canada leaving behind my home and loved ones I had a destiny and irresistible desire to succeed in my life. But to be honest I was unaware about the hardships and challenges that was waiting for me. I fought for existence and struggled a lot enough to thrive. Intercultural course has helped me a lot in identifying the various cultural dimensions, culturally sensitive issues and stages of cultural shock. In the following paragraphs I will discuss more about my intercultural experiences, learned qualities and significant things I noticed about Canadian

My Nuclear family consists of my mother, my father, my little brother and I. While this is my nuclear family, my external family has played a crucial part in my development. Growing up, I have always counted on an extensive family system during some stressful situations. This is one of the reasons why when my family had to separate to come to the United States, I was able to cope with the transition gracefully. This experience provided my family with the tools to cope with adversity. The experience of being separated from my family has provided the circumstances to test how I deal with stressful situations. More importantly, it gave me hope for positive outcomes even in the face of adversity.

Culture is the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. Is it a good thing to become culturally enlightened? This is the topic that stood out to me in Alice Walker's “Everyday Use”. The world is as big as you make it, and everyone is a part of a culture involuntarily. Whether they have been taught one, or learned a new one. Multiculturalism can be seen in the oldest daughter’s role showing benefits to your family, connections that can be established, and personal health would be positively affected.